The hit-and-run casual humor interjected in the actual historical knowledge makes it feel like I'm just listening to a friend explain something they just learned earlier today, and I love it so much
Textbook knowledge is boring. Humor is engaging. This is the equivalent of your parents putting broccoli in Mac N’ Cheese when you were a kid so you won’t notice it.
@@Viscool8332 who in their right minds eats mac and cheese it’s equivalent of drinking urine and saying it’s beer there is so many good meals you can make with pasta and you just cover it in cheese and call it a day
re death masks: i went once to an antique shop that sold jewelery and little picture frames with human hair in it. I said the same thing to the owner: omg thats kinda creepy. He said yeh, now it seems creepy with all the photography and technology we have, but for people 200 years ago that was usually the only thing left to remind them of someone who they loved, after they died. Most people couldnt afford having a portrait painted or photo taken and memories fade pretty quickly. I guess its the same with those burial masks, in the past you couldn't just open an album and remember someones face, one of few ways to re-connect with departed was to go to their grave and i bet it must have been pretty nice feeling to see their face again :)
As a Polish person - I appriciate the attempt at polish names. It always funny to see someone try to pronounce our names - but don't worry, there are place names that are hard to pronounce by natives. You tried, which is nice :)
I try to use the Google translate dictation thing to get the right idea… but I think I put too much faith in it because it’s definitely not spot on. Thank you for giving me the “polish is difficult” justification. It means the world coming from someone who speaks it. And thanks for the tips! The phonetics will really help.
@@GrimmDelightsDice I would say that is correct. The cz is also a bit harsher I would say. But for comparisons sake for an english speaker I would say that ch is church is close enough. I also couldn't think of an english word that would have a closer sound (not sure if one with such even exists)
@@miniminuteman773 Here's a guide to Polish phonetics Sz is an sh sound Rz/ż is a zh sound I is most often pronounced as a y like in "young" when coming after a vowel or consonant Ch is pronounced like an h Ó is the same as a u and it's pronounced like an oo J is pronounced like a y like in young Dz is pronounced as a tz Dź is incomparable to English sounds Ź is pronounced like a "zee" Ą is pronounced some what like "own" Ę is pronounced some what like "ewn" Ć is pronounced like a "tzi" Ś is pronounced like a "tsi" I understand this may be a bit of a disorderly list but I hope it's useful
Milo! Please do another one of these! It doesn't even have to be monthly, a "This year in archeology" would be an awesome video and the yearly format would put a lot less pressure on you and would allow you to have a treasure trove of cool stuff to talk about.
From what I gather, a "Schüssel" is also closer in meaning to a bowl, whereas a cup (as in: a cup of tea) would be describable as "Tasse", but don't take my word for it.
I see this is 2yrs old but while we're actively being Germans here, can we also give an honorary mention to his pronunciation? Except for the emphasis it was pretty freaking spot on with the ü and ch
As a person from a hilly tribe, we still eat tortoises and freshwater turtles. It's great to see similarities between many communities whether past or present
we did this when i was a kid in florida ( this was 50 years ago). i ate none or not much that i remember but it was common enough people had recipes for them
There's quite more history to this. Psychedelics in Beer were quite common for most of human history. It was the early modern state which together with its elites, as it developed after the medieval era, was increasingly concerned with unruly peasants. Trying to contain their use of substances was part of a greater trend of increasing control over the general population and try to boost their productivity. Hops was seen as acceptable substance in beer because it was seen as making people more pliant, in contrast to various psychedelics that had also been in use in the same fashion as hops, but were viewed as making peasants unruly. This obsession is the reason Martin Luther spoke out against beer consumption.
First time on LSD, I was given 5x what we thought we cut. (So 5 hits. Yeah I'm a pussy.) Before the first hour was up, I was cabbing back from a Tool cover band show that I failed to see a single minute of. Too many people for that kind of anxiety. I'm not sure what would have happened if I had not decided to face a freaky ass taxi ride while I still had one foot out of the pool. But I needed to be home. The b'ys called me into the living room. Told me that to stop pacing around like a maniac, I needs a beer. I was adverse to the notion, surprised. But they all had experience with this shit. So I drank, and smoked, and smoked, and drank. Laughed endlessly. Or maybe startlessly. We listened to Tool and Radiohead, and I had a great time. (The cover of Lateralus appeared to move and/or change colors.) The drinks, cannabis, and endless cigarettes really seemed to take the edge off. We needed more beer. 2 of the guys decided to go to the store for us, also on a lot of LSD. My sober friend decided to stay with me. Probably because I asked him to. The thought of going outside messed with me. (Sometimes I feel like I have slight agoraphobia.) Time got quiet. I was still feeling pretty good for the most part. But it did seem like the guys were gone for a while. There's a commotion at the door. Heavy panting. A six pack briskly plants itself on the coffee table. There's blood on the floor. I do not know if a sound I should make. My sober friend asks cutely, "So what happened?" "Oh, nothing." His partner in the beer quest turned to look at him, as if looking at 7 heads splitting apart. Visceral shock, "Are you serious?!" Gesturing to the blood apparent on the hardwood. As additional loose beer bottles are removed from jacket pockets, amongst shards of broken glass, dripping red, he meditates, "See, I can take it back down. I have control." He exhales. His partner is awestruck. Jaw agape, his body releases a short noise of disbelief and amazement, mixed with terror and hilarity. "So, we just got chased by 2 dudes in a truck all the way from the store. /This guy/ ", looking at our bloodied monk friend, "said /something/ to the guys in the store. As soon as we left the store, /he/ screams 'RUN!' so I ran too. We jumped fences, and hid behind apartment buildings to get away. They wouldn't stop looking for us." "What did he say?" "I don't fucking know." Then I drank the beers.
I just found your channel because my friend found you and immediately texted me like, "Hey, there's a guy with long hair who talks about history on TH-cam and he mentioned living in Mass, do you know him? He seems like he might be friends with your work friends." Still have absolutely no idea if you know anyone I know, but I'm sending my best wishes from the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, and glad my friend told me to watch this.
As a Peruvian, I am glad to finally see somebody speak about anything but Incas. I hope you cover the Nazca lines soon! Also, that chicha is «chicha morada», a non-alcoholic beverage. Alcoholic chicha is usually called «chicha de jora», a fermented maize beverage which can be modified, as you say, with spices.
@@lorenzogiani7190 No hablo español, pero puedo apreciar algunos buenos juegos de palabras. (como dije, no hablo español, lo siento por la gramática del traductor de Google)
@@manatee0753 I’m not sure if it was entirely grammatically correct, but I followed it… not sure about “juego de palabras” for wordplay, but then Spanish can also be very literal sometimes… but not bad!
I just love how enthusiastic you are about all of this. Makes me, a person who hated social studies in high school, love hearing about archeology and history. I swear, the further I get from the educational system of "you have to memorize these facts/names/dates" and closer to actually understanding what those facts mean, the significance of the people involved, and approximate timelines that show the order of events and time-gaps between said events, the more I genuinely love learning about history, anthropology, archeology, geology and all those other -ologies. There were a couple times when you used a layman's term for something and then corrected yourself with more accurate terminology that I've never heard before so I'm gonna go look up real quick and find out what it means because knowledge is power. You're making learning fun, kudos to you man.
Honestly, glimpses into everyday life like that board game discovery and how people have always been people are one of the biggest reasons history fascinates me so much.
So I have this feral kitten that I successfully domesticated. He absolutely loves you. The moment I start one of your videos he comes running to watch. It’s the only time he will cuddle. So I named him after you. Milo is a sweet but mischievous soul. He is curious but cautious. Thank you for making content that helped me give a life of unconditional love to a life lost otherwise. ❤
I love Dr.Finkle, he's so wholesome! From him I learned that in ancient Assyrian culture ghost sightings were so common that we've found pendants saying basically "to my dead uncle: FUCK OFF YOU ANNOYING ASSHOLE!!!"
One of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to is the Museo Larco in Lima, Peru. They have a section that walks you through the whole history of different cultures from the area and their collection of artifacts is amazing.
Where's part two, we've waited 5 months, this is so interesting and my brain is thirsty for information delivered in this engaging format. Hopefully now that you have gone full time with content creation you can finally bring this series back
From the conservator: the reason organic objects are often preserved around bronze and silver is because the disintegrating particles of silver and cupper are anti bacterial and slow the degredation
I learned that years ago, when all of a sudden there were this "copper-infused face masks." I thought "Oh, sure, COPPER is anti-bacterial, right." It IS right. That's just so weird, why are these random metals anti-bacterial?
@@FrenkTheJoy it's because they're toxic to micro organizms, and kind of functions in the same way sugar or acid does in food, they're technically also toxic to us, but in much larger quantity, fun fact: people who have ingested toxic level of silver often appear with a blue hue to their skin
@@thoranyborg7348 yea it’s called colloidal silver right? That loony cult leader lady (head of the “love has won” cult drank it for years and then died. Don’t be too sad for her though because she was also a power crazed, angry abusive alcoholic who convinced her followers that she was literally god. Pretty interesting stuff if anyone is interested
@@thoranyborg7348 that makes so much sense about the toxicity, I’m still a little curious though how do the two interact? (The metals and microorganisms)
@@tianna1116 well, I'm a little rusty on this part, so take it with a grain of salt, but if i remember correctly it's because the ions of the metal, (metals wants to be salts so when they have the opportunity or conditions they start to transform into salts and become free ions and ionicly bonded into salts (all elements are lazy bastards and they spend more energy being a solid metal than they do when they are a salt)) well anyway the ions fuck up the bacteria, either it's an osmotic pressure (like sugar in jam, and suck all the water out of the bacteria) or it works like a toxin on their biochemistry so their functions doesn't work so they die but a food scientists or a biochemist would probably know better than me! The organics found close to silver or copper are usually horrible to deal with, it's cool and all but they're so difficult, i reached a stage where i almost cried when I found more textiles from one grave cite, i didn't have enough time in the budget to deal with it 😅 just a month before i was so happy it was like Christmas morning
You have to be one of the most entertaining educators I've ever seen. We need more folks like you in classrooms. You're an fantastic example of how to keep people engaged. No doubt I'de have done post secondary education if I had someone like you in class 20 years ago!
When it comes to a random pile of somethings at an archaeological site, the scientific community doesn't do enough to account for "look at this cool rock I found". Maybe the feathers had some kind of spiritual or ritualistic significance. Or maybe Neolithic Jeremy was really into birds and collected cool feathers. They didn't have much else to do for fun back then.
It would help to know if feather collections were found at other sites as well. Or if that was common practice among other cultures who had bird deities. That would show some continuity.
@@snesguy9176 Phil of Time Team fame joked that 'ritual' is archeological codename for 'we have no idea what it was for' that you can still show your investors without loosing your funding.
As an archaeologist I can assure you that "it's ritual" is just what we say when we don't have a decent explanation for something. Archaeologists all know this, so we don't attach much value to this statement.
Milo you’re a gift.. I’m so glad you came to YT.. this was AWESOME.. please please please do more of these 🙏 The history community is going to love these
Loving this new series already! I kinda see it as the counter part to Awful Archeology. The first one being the confrontational focus on archeology, directly fighting misinformation and debunking conspiracy theories; and this one being the constructive focus on archeology, sharing archeological findings and explainig them for the normal veiwer. Also love how you succes at showing long dead people as actual people, like all of us. That's a rarely seen focus on archeology in mainstreem media sadly Hope you can continue this series 💖🐎💖
I loved the Flash Gordon reference, my twin sister was obsessed with Flash Gordon when we were in high school and would follow me around singing the theme song. I never watched it, but the way you sang it was almost identical to how she does, so I immediately recognized it. Ah, the nostalgia... 😊
The video of Tom Scott playing the Royal Game of Ur against Irving Finkel is my favorite video on the internet, thank you for reminding me to re-watch it. Also great video, I very much enjoyed it!
Regarding the eating of different animals, indigenous Australians I used to work with from remote communities would often eat animals that would make most people wince. Such as species of turtle and, a feed that all the boys swore was the best, goanna. Speaking of indigenous Australians I'd love to hear you speak of the Gunditjmara archaeological site of Budj Bim
Like most indigenous Australians that live in cities, I went on a trip to stay in native title land in my early 20's to "learn how to be black". Can confirm that I ate turtle. Never are goanna, but. My sister went on a road trip when she was 22 from Adelaide to Darwin, and ate a lot of weird shit. She also got to see Uluru for free because she went with one of her mates who is Pitjitjinjara. (We are Ngarrindjeri/Kuarna mob). Going to the Northern Territory in your late teens/early twenties is pretty much a rite of passage for most blackfellas.
Most societies eat things that make other societies wince. As a Caucasian Australian, I've tried crodile (too chewy), kangaroo (I felt so bad for eating Skippy) I think I've tried emu, too. But as a high school french student, eons ago we celebrated Bastille Day by cooking ourselves a three course lunch. Frog's Legs, Snails, chicken casserole with another name, and crepes. I was gobsmacked to discover horse meat is a common ingredient in France though.
East-facing tombs: the resurrecting Jesus is traditionally identified with the rising sun. European churches are still built with the altar in the eastern end.
Also, the new testament states that Jesus will come back and appear in the east, and the dead will rise to meet him. So facing east gives the dead an advantage, and is an act of faith for those burying them.
There is a lot of evidence to him actually being a type of sun god due to him having many similarities to other sun gods in mythology. So I’d say your right on that
If you want to learn more about the Wari, I recommend reading up on the work done by Dr. Véronique Bélisle. She studies the cultural impact the Wari had on surrounding communities during their expansion in 600-1000 AD.
The board game reminds me of the chess tables we have in some squares here in Brazil. They are tables with usually 4 small benches around them that have a chess (or checkers) board on the center, and very frequently you'll see old people playing a game in those tables. I like them very much because you can either play a game or do a picnic on them, and they are usually in very nove and shaded places, very inviting to spend a few hours with friends.
German here- You did a good job with Regenbogen, not so much with schüsselchen Funfact, Schüssel is the main word meaning bowl but "-chen" as a ending is a way to make a world 'cuter', like adding a -y to dog! So Schüsselchen is literaly just a cute little bowl
Yes :) it makes it even cuter than Rainbow cups. Also Brötchen Brot = bread -chen = ending for cute small things Brötchen = dinner rolls (or small cute form of bread in the german translation )
Just the fact that Irving Finkel was mentioned made my day. Also, omg Milo actually built the replica during quarantine. I just thought about it. Nice work.
One of my old friends and GMs is an assyriologist and when we were in a desert we met a merchant who challenged us to wager passage across the desert for winning a Game of Ur against him. GM made a board and everything and taught us how to play. We ended up winning without even having to cheat! . . . just all 4 of us versing him
I have been watching so many of your videos lately and I just love the way you teach, I love your personality, and I love that you’re from Massachusetts because I was born in Hyannis but grew up in Cali so I love hearing about regional things such as the easy pass, Dunkin’ Donuts, and other things. Overall, I love your content and I hope you never stop because I’m far too lazy to do my own research but I love being updated on recent finds. Thank you!
@@Alex-fv2qs even if his TikTok is wildly successful, it's a nice sentiment to say they hope for his youtube channel to see more than its present success in the future.
I cannot wait for future archeologists giving lectures about, “This was known as The Game of Gilded Royals.” : holds up tattered Hungry Hungry Hippos game :
Man you have it all. Swagger, comedy, and education. Easily one of the best educational channels on this platform, like somehow you make me (someone who has failed, C-/F, all history classes 4th grade to graduation with no exception) actually enjoy learning about ancient history!
it blows my mind people in the us study greek egyptian roman etc archaeology but not american. We are learniing how stunningly advanced tribes here were but there seems to be veey littlw money devoted to it
I love love love your lectures! Not an archaeologist, but I believe the neolithic folks had the same range of emotions that we today have. So their motivation for doing anything would be a parallel to what we would do under similar circumstances. Also, their curiosity about what they didn’t understand, for example, the turning of the seasons and light and night, could easily have been explained by gods and goddesses. Every now and then over the millennia, a brilliant person would discover how something worked and others became convinced of its logic, e.g, the moon circling the earth or the earth circling the moon. Then came others who refined the hypothesis until satellites confirmed to all but a few. I think this explains open minded people vs close minded people. Keep in mind that we can control/train our thoughts, pushing out what causes stress and feeding what gives pleasure.
This ACTUALLY showed up in my recommended! That means your channel is getting enough traction to where TH-cam deems it as worthy without the bell icon~ Doing great!
Side note if you haven't yet Miniminuteman, I'm going to recommend picking up a lot of foam for your walls to help with the acoustics in your room. It'll help cut down on the echo. Soft foam is decently inexpensive and they can be mounted with push pins and such and it'll do wonders.
Funny you mention that! Otzi is the discovery that got me interested in archaeology when I was 5 years old. In fact he’s been so foundational in my interests that I actually got his tattoos. I am planning on doing a whole deep dive on Otzi because he deserves a place of honor on this channel.
This was all so fascinating from the humor to the information. With you also looking similar to my sons, this was so much like them playing around while teaching me some random historical things that they researched that they just wanted to share with me. Like I tell them, I hope you never lose your passion for learning!
Your content is addictive! If you ever wanted to get a mic/help correcting the echo in your audio, ppl who mostly listen to your vids would love that! But your channel is killer & you're doing it for free, so thanks for all the effort you put into these!! One of my fav channels on yt 🙏🙏
marrow is also one of the most delicious and fatty parts of an animal and is widely eaten today. here in the vienna area for example we have a dish called "tafelspitz" which is a particularly delicous cut of beef cooked in a broth, that comes with a big slice of bone where the marrow is then spread on bread for the highlight of the whole experience.
May I suggest a video idea? It's something I've been wondering about for a while, but haven't found a proper answer to yet: how much do we know about the world going backwards in time? For example: going back 50 years we can find the names of pretty much all people alive. 100 and we have at least approximate population numbers. 150 and it becomes more vague. 200 and we mostly only know the names of important people and so on and so on. How well do we know society going backwards in time and how quickly does or knowledge deteriorate? What is the first thing we know for certain? It might be a HUGE project, but I think it'd make for a very interesting video!
I feel like this would depend on where you draw the line on human and society. We know that humans were making tools since before they were “human” we know that art has been made since before recorded history. The people making those would not have been in a complex society, but they would have been social. When it comes to history we have written records of that is more recent. And by recent I mean that in terms of thousands of years. You do know less about *individuals* the farther back you go.
I think it would almost be impossible to make a video about this because it’s such a broad field. No one archeologist does the same thing as another. You’d really have to narrow it down to a country and work your way through. I can’t speak for people who do prehistoric archeology and probably shouldn’t for people who do classical since I’m a only half way through my bachelors but the earliest culture we learn about is the Minoan and Mycenaean Culture (dates to 3500-1100 BCE; focus: Greek islands and influences onto mainland). Crete was the first area in Europe with a writing system - Linear A and Linear B. Linear A has not been decided yet but Linear B has. Linear B texts were used for administrieren purposes and not writing down important figures. So for example names of different sheep were listed but not the ruler of the time. So we’ve got a good amount of information on that What’s also important is the iconography. Akrotiri, Thera (aka Santorini) has a beautifully preserved Bronze Age city, where archeologists found wall paintings that give us an insight on hairstyle, makeup, jewelry and clothing. But it also allows us to understand the network of people that went through training in order to make these paintings. And obviously the remaining material culture from settlements also help us understand the development of society (not Minoan or Mycenaean but the domestic houses from Smyrna 9th-6th century BCE are really interesting in that regard). So the remaining palaces and homes spread across the Aegean are extremely helpful. We’re not sure why Bronze Age Society collapsed but what we do know is that society seemed to take a step back. Linear B writing system went lost, iconography became simpler. PS. If you want to look into the development of single citizens into a society in Greece, I’d recommend reading “Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State” by M.H. Hansen
@@awalter3976 Those are a lot of very good points! I was thinking about something very general and shallow, but after reading your comment I think this would have to be a collaborative project, were it to be completed at all. Don't suppose you know if an overview like I described exists at all?
I actually think this is a great idea. Yes, it would have to be broad and shallow. But I think here on youtube, where we love to get excited about multiple hour long deep dives into niche topics, we forget the value of introductory overviews. This is a great, engaging idea for a video that could give some general context for history, archaeology, and how the two sort of fade into eachother. Or if someone got enough experts together to really do the concept accurately, it could make a great hook for an entire series.
UN literally stopped counting dead in Syria after Assad killed half a million and that was before russia invaded, nobody knows death toll in Mariupol and russians keep bulldozing the evidence, so we are still a long way to know every person alive, or dead. Anyone has total population numbers in Uyghur concentration camps? Or Ukrainian children russia kidnapped and changed their names? Red Cross takes part in cover-ups. Like they did in 1940s Germany. We don't know all names. Never did.
This was very chaotic, which I loved. I look forward to more of this in the future. Also, I feel deeply for your roommates trying to avoid playing Risk. This speaks to me on a personal level.
I was so surprised hearing you talk about the found coin stash here in Germany, because I very rarely listen to the radio but the one time back in january I did, they talked about this finding! Also, all things considered you did a good job pronouncing Regenbogenschüsselchen! Although the Ü, as well as Ä and Ö, would be better changed to ue, ae and oe instead of just u, a and o, because it can change the meaning of a word quite a bit (e. g. Mütter - Mutter = mothers - mother or schwül - schwul = stuffy - gay, Schüssel - Schussel = bowl - scatterbrain), in case you ever have to feature something german again in the future
also, I might be wrong, but doesn't the suffix -chen indicate that something is small? (I.e Mädchen = little girl) because if so then the actual translation would be more like "little bowl coins" or whatever he said in the video. Or it could just be the way the word ends, I'm not sure.
@@oniononion69 You're right! (except for the Mädchen part, because that means just "girl" - it's complicated with that one) -chen usually denotes that something is small and/or cute. So it would indeed be more accurate to translate it as "little rainbow bowl". But I'm not at all surprised that the google translator kinda glosses over that. The suffix -lein also serves a similiar function, but is not used that much anymore as far as I'm aware. Edit: While I greatly appreciate the correction on the "Mädchen" part, it is also more than enough when ONE person does so ;)
@@LaPazzaAmy I just remember my german teacher saying that Mädchen technically translates literally to "little girl" rather than just girl, and the -chen suffix being why it's actually a neutral gender (or whatever it's called in english idk) rather than feminine, since words that have the -chen added are neutral.
@@LaPazzaAmy Pretty sure Mädchen was originally a diminuitive too, with "Maid" being the non-diminuitive variant. It's just that Maid fell out of use and Mädchen took on a more independent meaning.
I was 6 years old when I wanted to be an archeologist, by the influence of Tomb Raider. She became my role model as a child, and funnily enough saved my life; because my neurodivergent ass didn't know how to swim as a child and I nearly drowned and thought "How would Lara survive this" and figured out how to get to the surface before drowning. 💀 Albeit archeology was my life goal as a child, and because of it and Tomb Raider my passion for history was sparked and still burning today, it is now more of a personal passion and one I still treasure. Amazing how some childhood experiences and fascinations can shape a person's being.
Me, confidently at a party while the music is at the quietest point between two tracks: yeah, This Archaeology Month In is definitely my favourite newspaper column of all time
I have now officially watched every single video from Milo made after this video at the current time of this comment. Thanks to you and your channel, I have not only started studying archaeology in college, but i've also started watching your videos religiously. Primarily, since they are not only always fun to rewatch, but it's extremely helpful in my academic journey and it certainly is teaching me how to be a proper archaeologist not only from a local perspective but also from a worldly perspective that respects and admires all cultures outside and inside of modern-day western culture.
Hearing you try to pronounce Polish names is quite hilarious. Pomorzanie was the name of people living in the area called Pomorze. The rz is pronounced like the first g in the french word gigolo. Mieszko is pronounced Mieshko. German is a very hard language. The W is pronounced like in Wolfram.
@@elfodelputoinfierno yes it is. w in german is pronounced like the english v in vision, virus etc. not sure what krin krin meant by wolfram, cuz i'm pretty sure anglophones would pronounce the w in wolfram the same as any other w.
@@conaireparsons9672well if you want to be accurate to the original german pronunciation, yes. although fyi you would then also have to pronounce the o like in 'evolve', slightly roll the r instead of using the weird soft english r, and pronounce the a like in 'father', rather than in 'damn'.
I love the way you pronounce polish names. Also i the fact that this unique and precious amber rings are literally lying on a toilet paper in most of the photos is hilarious to me.
@@kenziescout2343 I'm pretty sure it's toilet paper I use the same brand. It's very popular in poland and it has this granny vibe to it. May have also be the tissues idk.
The rings are kept in moist toilet paper because amber is an organic material. Keeping it moist ensures that it wont break. Conservation is very important when finding things like this so getting it wrapped up in something moist as soon as possible is key and toilet paper is usually the most prevalent and easy thing to use.
"Regenbogenschüsselchen" (Don't forget the Röck Döts - a "Schüsselchen" is a small cub or bowl, "Schusselchen" on the other hand is an affectionate way to call someone unfocused and forgetful..😅) is a term I never heard before despite being german and interested in archeology. Thanks for the info and for being brave enough to try pronounciating it! 🤣 I really appreciate your content and style of presentation - you dusted archeology, and your approach and character makes you a great communicator of archeology and related topics towards a younger audience. Keep on doing your thing - I can't wait for your next upload. Greetings from Berlin!
@@kailbadenhorst7174 That's not an excuse - because you could write "ü" as "ue" instead, or "ä" as "ae"..🤓 But joke aside: Actually I'm not that pendantic, but the example was well suited to show that two tiny dots can profoundly change the meaning of a word. 😅 Have a nice weekend, and greetings from Berlin!
@@kailbadenhorst7174 I didn't mean to harass you to change your ways for such a nit-pick. 😅 The only reason I adressed it at all is that in this special case it results in the creation of a wholesome new term. If you are dealing with fonts and typography this might be interesting for you: Ä, ö and ü are shortened forms of writing "ae", "oe" and "ue" (which is still practiced when no ä/ö/ü are available, or for instance in crosswords). People started to fuse the two letters for convenience, resulting in Æ/æ, Uͤ /uͤ and Oͤ/oͤ, and in the last step the tiny e above u and o changed into dots. Neither version would be wrong today, but not having the dots and no added "e" at all is like omitting a complete letter. The difference between "Schüsselchen" and "Schusselchen" becomes obvious when one writes it out: "Schussel" and Schuessel" (the ending -chen would indicate a diminutive) are very different words now. As I said: I don't want to be nitpicky, I just thought it might be interesting to learn what's the deal with our weird vowel mutations. 😅 If no dots are available the correct german writing would add an "e" instead, always and with no exception. If this was better known it would make things for english speakers way more easy when dealing with german terms I guess.. Thanks and all the best to you as well! 🤜🤛
You totally look like a modern day Captain Jack Sparrow in this video and I'm living for it! Thanks for sparking my newfound passion for archeology with your humor and awesomeness 😊
keep up the solid videos! also i couldnt hear any background noises. if youre worried about audio quality get an external recorder or lav mic. that way you could damn near be in the room the super bowl party is goin and it wouldnt interfere much haha. or some sound treatment in the room youre in because there is a slight echo/reverb.
Wanted to say that apart from all the interesting archeology, I really love that you leave mistakes in your videos. I spent almost a full minute laughing at your second attempt to show how many towers there were and still getting the number wrong. I'll also point out for anyone interested that the picture of the stylized dancing bird is from Northwest/Alaskan Native culture (shown during the segment on the Paleolithic Settlement).
i love this new idea for a series.... also i am so happy that you referenced Irving Finkle playing the game of Ur, that is such a great video, as are all of Finkle's videos, he is the best
I will never get tired of the jokes you effortlessly slip in to all your videos. Most of the time they catch me so off guard and it's great, they always get a genuine laugh out of me. (And don't worry, we have EZ passes in Maine too)
I hope you do do a video on the Wari! I'm actually traveling to Bolivia this summer, and I'm trying to read up on the indigenous peoples there. Lake Titicaca was akin to the Wari's Nile River. The Wari history in the region and their eventual decline as the Inca rose is really neat.
After watching the video on the “Baghdad Battery”, it makes me happy to hear about some sites that weren’t disturbed more or less before being studied. It’s nice what you can find out when you don’t touch anything without thinking first!
Is there any plan to restart this series? I love all of your content, but this was a fun jumping off point to go down a number of rabbit holes after the fact, and would love it if you continued to make installments in this format periodically (maybe quarterly, if monthly proved too demanding?)
He's in another timeline when West actually helped Ukraine and got into a war with russia judging by the intro. In real life it's just us being bombed with Westerners chilling out in pools of our blood.
Fun fact: xocoatl was an almost beer-like, frothy drink made from whisking paste made of the fermented seeds of the cacao plant into water using a molinet and was mainly used in religious ceremonies and rituals, partly due to its slight alcoholic and hallucinogenic properties. The ancient Mayan peoples are credited as the first to cultivate cacao plants and took it with them as they traveled from the Amazon and the Orinoco Basin, and eventually created the first cacao plantations in Yucatán. Also, cacao beans were sometimes used as currency by the Olmec peoples. I highly recommend looking into the origins and history of chocolate. It’s really quite fascinating.
I've seen a video of Erwin Finkle playing the royal game of ur with Tom Scot, it has pretty simple rules but still seems like it would be a blast to play
i need more of this , i found and binged your channel a little before you made this and lost it in the youtube. later i found a short and now im binging it again. this is great content
Wow, this was great, super interesting and great fun to watch and listen to. I am so glad to have found your channel. I must learn more about the Wari. They sound very interesting, I like the idea of how they built and governed their empire. I must learn more. Did you know that beer making is probably older than wine making. At least there is older archaeological evidence for beer making. It is actually older than agriculture and may have been one of the motivators for agriculture involving grains. Humans and a number of animals love to get high and or wasted. Wastage seems to pair well with Super Bowl. Regarding your last sentence. I never drink when flying the shroom highway other realms. It really is a waste of money.
@@donniejefferson9554 When I was a kidlet, a neighbour had a large old black cherry tree in his yard. In the fall, every year, thousands of birds would descend upon that big tree and have a massive noisey drunked up party that lasted for days, until the cherries were gone. Noisy as hell with birds, mostly starlings flying into trees, fences, and houses all over the place. They would fly into things, fall to the ground, flutter about a bit, then fly away, most of the time. Often leaving bird shit on windows and the sides of houses and parked cars.
As someone in their second year of an Archaeology degree, I thoroughly enjoy every video you make. Cant wait for your next episode of awful archaeology. Great stuff
This Series is already really amazing :D also I'm sorry for long german words XD you did do fairly well with the Regenbogen part of the word :) but I feel like Schüsselchen is probably one of the hardest words ever for english speaking people to say XD
I played the Axis and Allies board game once. It took all night and was very educational. Usually once studies WWII piecemeal, one relatively small aspect at a time. It was the first time I had to consider all aspects at once; put all the puzzle pieces together, so to speak.
„Regenbogenschüsselchen“ is brutal but if it means „little rainbow bowl“ or „rainbow bowlies“ it’s worth it! (The suffix „-chen“ is used to make it cute similar to the English -y like pup and puppy or kitten and kitty)
Among the many things I learned from this video, the most important was about the Wari. Specifically, I've much to learn about their methods for terrace farming making them drought-resistant (as an avid Timberborn player) and their peruvian pepper alcohol (because those trees invasive in Southern California, and easy to find and harvest in LA).
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The hit-and-run casual humor interjected in the actual historical knowledge makes it feel like I'm just listening to a friend explain something they just learned earlier today, and I love it so much
It makes me pay more attention to the video. :D (You'll probably enjoy Casual Geographic too.)
Textbook knowledge is boring. Humor is engaging. This is the equivalent of your parents putting broccoli in Mac N’ Cheese when you were a kid so you won’t notice it.
Who in their right mind puts broccoli in perfectly good Mac n cheese
@@Viscool8332 who in their right minds eats mac and cheese it’s equivalent of drinking urine and saying it’s beer there is so many good meals you can make with pasta and you just cover it in cheese and call it a day
OH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT IN WORDS
re death masks: i went once to an antique shop that sold jewelery and little picture frames with human hair in it. I said the same thing to the owner: omg thats kinda creepy. He said yeh, now it seems creepy with all the photography and technology we have, but for people 200 years ago that was usually the only thing left to remind them of someone who they loved, after they died. Most people couldnt afford having a portrait painted or photo taken and memories fade pretty quickly. I guess its the same with those burial masks, in the past you couldn't just open an album and remember someones face, one of few ways to re-connect with departed was to go to their grave and i bet it must have been pretty nice feeling to see their face again :)
As a Polish person - I appriciate the attempt at polish names. It always funny to see someone try to pronounce our names - but don't worry, there are place names that are hard to pronounce by natives. You tried, which is nice :)
Just to add cz is the same sound as ch in church, sz is the same as sh in the word shaman.
I try to use the Google translate dictation thing to get the right idea… but I think I put too much faith in it because it’s definitely not spot on. Thank you for giving me the “polish is difficult” justification. It means the world coming from someone who speaks it. And thanks for the tips! The phonetics will really help.
@@MoonBlade111 Correct me if I'm wrong- I always heard "cz" as subtly flatter than the English "ch", more low/around the tongue than "ch".
@@GrimmDelightsDice I would say that is correct. The cz is also a bit harsher I would say. But for comparisons sake for an english speaker I would say that ch is church is close enough. I also couldn't think of an english word that would have a closer sound (not sure if one with such even exists)
@@miniminuteman773
Here's a guide to Polish phonetics
Sz is an sh sound
Rz/ż is a zh sound
I is most often pronounced as a y like in "young" when coming after a vowel or consonant
Ch is pronounced like an h
Ó is the same as a u and it's pronounced like an oo
J is pronounced like a y like in young
Dz is pronounced as a tz
Dź is incomparable to English sounds
Ź is pronounced like a "zee"
Ą is pronounced some what like "own"
Ę is pronounced some what like "ewn"
Ć is pronounced like a "tzi"
Ś is pronounced like a "tsi"
I understand this may be a bit of a disorderly list but I hope it's useful
Milo! Please do another one of these! It doesn't even have to be monthly, a "This year in archeology" would be an awesome video and the yearly format would put a lot less pressure on you and would allow you to have a treasure trove of cool stuff to talk about.
that's a great idea! I'm very late to this, but I really hope he does an update sometime
21:10 Its even more adorable. "Regenbogenschüsselchen" actually means "little rainbow cup". The ending -chen is the diminutiv form in German.
From what I gather, a "Schüssel" is also closer in meaning to a bowl, whereas a cup (as in: a cup of tea) would be describable as "Tasse", but don't take my word for it.
@@knownothing5518 you're right :)
I see this is 2yrs old but while we're actively being Germans here, can we also give an honorary mention to his pronunciation? Except for the emphasis it was pretty freaking spot on with the ü and ch
As a person from a hilly tribe, we still eat tortoises and freshwater turtles. It's great to see similarities between many communities whether past or present
we did this when i was a kid in florida ( this was 50 years ago). i ate none or not much that i remember but it was common enough people had recipes for them
"Don't mix psychedelic's with beer, because it's a waste of money"
This man speaks de true true.
Make him our king.
Hold on, I'll be back with the crown and cloak.
I’ll always look out for your best interests 🍻
I do wish he would have told me this when I was his age, like before his mother was alive. I would not have blamed the acid for the hangover.
There's quite more history to this. Psychedelics in Beer were quite common for most of human history. It was the early modern state which together with its elites, as it developed after the medieval era, was increasingly concerned with unruly peasants. Trying to contain their use of substances was part of a greater trend of increasing control over the general population and try to boost their productivity. Hops was seen as acceptable substance in beer because it was seen as making people more pliant, in contrast to various psychedelics that had also been in use in the same fashion as hops, but were viewed as making peasants unruly. This obsession is the reason Martin Luther spoke out against beer consumption.
First time on LSD, I was given 5x what we thought we cut. (So 5 hits. Yeah I'm a pussy.)
Before the first hour was up, I was cabbing back from a Tool cover band show that I failed to see a single minute of. Too many people for that kind of anxiety. I'm not sure what would have happened if I had not decided to face a freaky ass taxi ride while I still had one foot out of the pool. But I needed to be home.
The b'ys called me into the living room. Told me that to stop pacing around like a maniac, I needs a beer. I was adverse to the notion, surprised. But they all had experience with this shit. So I drank, and smoked, and smoked, and drank. Laughed endlessly. Or maybe startlessly. We listened to Tool and Radiohead, and I had a great time. (The cover of Lateralus appeared to move and/or change colors.) The drinks, cannabis, and endless cigarettes really seemed to take the edge off.
We needed more beer. 2 of the guys decided to go to the store for us, also on a lot of LSD. My sober friend decided to stay with me. Probably because I asked him to. The thought of going outside messed with me. (Sometimes I feel like I have slight agoraphobia.)
Time got quiet. I was still feeling pretty good for the most part. But it did seem like the guys were gone for a while.
There's a commotion at the door. Heavy panting. A six pack briskly plants itself on the coffee table. There's blood on the floor. I do not know if a sound I should make. My sober friend asks cutely, "So what happened?"
"Oh, nothing."
His partner in the beer quest turned to look at him, as if looking at 7 heads splitting apart. Visceral shock,
"Are you serious?!" Gesturing to the blood apparent on the hardwood.
As additional loose beer bottles are removed from jacket pockets, amongst shards of broken glass, dripping red, he meditates, "See, I can take it back down. I have control." He exhales.
His partner is awestruck. Jaw agape, his body releases a short noise of disbelief and amazement, mixed with terror and hilarity.
"So, we just got chased by 2 dudes in a truck all the way from the store. /This guy/ ", looking at our bloodied monk friend, "said /something/ to the guys in the store. As soon as we left the store, /he/ screams 'RUN!' so I ran too. We jumped fences, and hid behind apartment buildings to get away. They wouldn't stop looking for us."
"What did he say?"
"I don't fucking know."
Then I drank the beers.
I just found your channel because my friend found you and immediately texted me like, "Hey, there's a guy with long hair who talks about history on TH-cam and he mentioned living in Mass, do you know him? He seems like he might be friends with your work friends." Still have absolutely no idea if you know anyone I know, but I'm sending my best wishes from the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, and glad my friend told me to watch this.
As a Peruvian, I am glad to finally see somebody speak about anything but Incas. I hope you cover the Nazca lines soon!
Also, that chicha is «chicha morada», a non-alcoholic beverage. Alcoholic chicha is usually called «chicha de jora», a fermented maize beverage which can be modified, as you say, with spices.
A bailar chicha con chicha en un vaso y chicha en el otro
@@lorenzogiani7190
No hablo español, pero puedo apreciar algunos buenos juegos de palabras. (como dije, no hablo español, lo siento por la gramática del traductor de Google)
Nazca lines are pretty much guarantied to be on the bingo of pain. It's literally the Stonehenge/Egyptian Pyramids/Mayan temples of the South America.
@@manatee0753 I’m not sure if it was entirely grammatically correct, but I followed it… not sure about “juego de palabras” for wordplay, but then Spanish can also be very literal sometimes… but not bad!
So similar to Sorrel? How nice!
I just love how enthusiastic you are about all of this. Makes me, a person who hated social studies in high school, love hearing about archeology and history. I swear, the further I get from the educational system of "you have to memorize these facts/names/dates" and closer to actually understanding what those facts mean, the significance of the people involved, and approximate timelines that show the order of events and time-gaps between said events, the more I genuinely love learning about history, anthropology, archeology, geology and all those other -ologies.
There were a couple times when you used a layman's term for something and then corrected yourself with more accurate terminology that I've never heard before so I'm gonna go look up real quick and find out what it means because knowledge is power.
You're making learning fun, kudos to you man.
they tteach social studies wrong. Make peoplememorise exports imports blabla. They should teach about the culture anz people..and not the ruling elite
Honestly, glimpses into everyday life like that board game discovery and how people have always been people are one of the biggest reasons history fascinates me so much.
That’s what I love most about history and archaeology. It makes me feel connected to those who came before
@@Ntwolf1220 right! it brings me comfort that humans have always been so… us.
Yes! Really shows we're not that different to our ancestors. Oftentimes we put this sort of mysticism on historic people but they were just like us.
The human experience is the same, the only thing that changes is our technology.
So I have this feral kitten that I successfully domesticated. He absolutely loves you. The moment I start one of your videos he comes running to watch. It’s the only time he will cuddle. So I named him after you. Milo is a sweet but mischievous soul. He is curious but cautious. Thank you for making content that helped me give a life of unconditional love to a life lost otherwise. ❤
This makes me so happy. I rescue scary dogs but I am terrible with cats so I am glad you have them covered.
I love Dr.Finkle, he's so wholesome! From him I learned that in ancient Assyrian culture ghost sightings were so common that we've found pendants saying basically "to my dead uncle: FUCK OFF YOU ANNOYING ASSHOLE!!!"
god damn that sounds really interesting, if you have a link to the vid id love to watch it
🤣🤣🤣🤣 man, I can’t breathe!
And THIS is why we're not sure about an afterlife.
@@DerUbermonke here's the link th-cam.com/video/zNNaZ110ee4/w-d-xo.html
Its a lecture on the first ghosts in culture
"God damnit uncle Ea-nasir, I am NOT selling substandard copper"
One of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to is the Museo Larco in Lima, Peru. They have a section that walks you through the whole history of different cultures from the area and their collection of artifacts is amazing.
_"Nixon's War on Black People."_
All I love about this channel in one line: *True, Informative, Hilarious,* and *Casually Skathing.*
@miniminuteman This should be your tag line
Casually Skathing is my new favorite description.
@@elikeenan136 that’s great but please spell scathing correctly (lower case and a c rather than a k.)
Casually skaven?
Where's part two, we've waited 5 months, this is so interesting and my brain is thirsty for information delivered in this engaging format. Hopefully now that you have gone full time with content creation you can finally bring this series back
From the conservator: the reason organic objects are often preserved around bronze and silver is because the disintegrating particles of silver and cupper are anti bacterial and slow the degredation
I learned that years ago, when all of a sudden there were this "copper-infused face masks." I thought "Oh, sure, COPPER is anti-bacterial, right."
It IS right. That's just so weird, why are these random metals anti-bacterial?
@@FrenkTheJoy it's because they're toxic to micro organizms, and kind of functions in the same way sugar or acid does in food, they're technically also toxic to us, but in much larger quantity, fun fact: people who have ingested toxic level of silver often appear with a blue hue to their skin
@@thoranyborg7348 yea it’s called colloidal silver right? That loony cult leader lady (head of the “love has won” cult drank it for years and then died. Don’t be too sad for her though because she was also a power crazed, angry abusive alcoholic who convinced her followers that she was literally god. Pretty interesting stuff if anyone is interested
@@thoranyborg7348 that makes so much sense about the toxicity, I’m still a little curious though how do the two interact? (The metals and microorganisms)
@@tianna1116 well, I'm a little rusty on this part, so take it with a grain of salt, but if i remember correctly it's because the ions of the metal, (metals wants to be salts so when they have the opportunity or conditions they start to transform into salts and become free ions and ionicly bonded into salts (all elements are lazy bastards and they spend more energy being a solid metal than they do when they are a salt)) well anyway the ions fuck up the bacteria, either it's an osmotic pressure (like sugar in jam, and suck all the water out of the bacteria) or it works like a toxin on their biochemistry so their functions doesn't work so they die but a food scientists or a biochemist would probably know better than me! The organics found close to silver or copper are usually horrible to deal with, it's cool and all but they're so difficult, i reached a stage where i almost cried when I found more textiles from one grave cite, i didn't have enough time in the budget to deal with it 😅 just a month before i was so happy it was like Christmas morning
You have to be one of the most entertaining educators I've ever seen. We need more folks like you in classrooms. You're an fantastic example of how to keep people engaged. No doubt I'de have done post secondary education if I had someone like you in class 20 years ago!
When it comes to a random pile of somethings at an archaeological site, the scientific community doesn't do enough to account for "look at this cool rock I found". Maybe the feathers had some kind of spiritual or ritualistic significance. Or maybe Neolithic Jeremy was really into birds and collected cool feathers. They didn't have much else to do for fun back then.
Yeah I hear the "spiritual" answer way to often when they don't know. I always look for more mundane answers
It would help to know if feather collections were found at other sites as well. Or if that was common practice among other cultures who had bird deities. That would show some continuity.
@@snesguy9176 Phil of Time Team fame joked that 'ritual' is archeological codename for 'we have no idea what it was for' that you can still show your investors without loosing your funding.
As an archaeologist I can assure you that "it's ritual" is just what we say when we don't have a decent explanation for something. Archaeologists all know this, so we don't attach much value to this statement.
This is a misunderstanding "ritual" does not mean religious in archeology. Collecting bird feathers would be ritualistic.
Milo you’re a gift.. I’m so glad you came to YT.. this was AWESOME..
please please please do more of these 🙏
The history community is going to love these
Loving this new series already!
I kinda see it as the counter part to Awful Archeology. The first one being the confrontational focus on archeology, directly fighting misinformation and debunking conspiracy theories; and this one being the constructive focus on archeology, sharing archeological findings and explainig them for the normal veiwer.
Also love how you succes at showing long dead people as actual people, like all of us. That's a rarely seen focus on archeology in mainstreem media sadly
Hope you can continue this series
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I loved the Flash Gordon reference, my twin sister was obsessed with Flash Gordon when we were in high school and would follow me around singing the theme song. I never watched it, but the way you sang it was almost identical to how she does, so I immediately recognized it. Ah, the nostalgia... 😊
The video of Tom Scott playing the Royal Game of Ur against Irving Finkel is my favorite video on the internet, thank you for reminding me to re-watch it. Also great video, I very much enjoyed it!
Regarding the eating of different animals, indigenous Australians I used to work with from remote communities would often eat animals that would make most people wince. Such as species of turtle and, a feed that all the boys swore was the best, goanna.
Speaking of indigenous Australians I'd love to hear you speak of the Gunditjmara archaeological site of Budj Bim
Like most indigenous Australians that live in cities, I went on a trip to stay in native title land in my early 20's to "learn how to be black". Can confirm that I ate turtle. Never are goanna, but. My sister went on a road trip when she was 22 from Adelaide to Darwin, and ate a lot of weird shit. She also got to see Uluru for free because she went with one of her mates who is Pitjitjinjara. (We are Ngarrindjeri/Kuarna mob). Going to the Northern Territory in your late teens/early twenties is pretty much a rite of passage for most blackfellas.
@@angelawossname thanks for sharing mate, only so far a white boy like me can share in regards to much of this as it's not my culture.
Most societies eat things that make other societies wince. As a Caucasian Australian, I've tried crodile (too chewy), kangaroo (I felt so bad for eating Skippy) I think I've tried emu, too.
But as a high school french student, eons ago we celebrated Bastille Day by cooking ourselves a three course lunch. Frog's Legs, Snails, chicken casserole with another name, and crepes.
I was gobsmacked to discover horse meat is a common ingredient in France though.
@@bilindalaw-morley161 if you ever stop feeling bad for Skippy it makes an excellent replacement for lamb
East-facing tombs: the resurrecting Jesus is traditionally identified with the rising sun. European churches are still built with the altar in the eastern end.
Also, the new testament states that Jesus will come back and appear in the east, and the dead will rise to meet him. So facing east gives the dead an advantage, and is an act of faith for those burying them.
Can't say that's true about the (Lutheran) churches I've been to here in Finland, but people are still being buried facing east whenever possible.
There is a lot of evidence to him actually being a type of sun god due to him having many similarities to other sun gods in mythology. So I’d say your right on that
@@abisaurusrexx3459 No, there's no such evidence that any actual scholar takes serious.
And, even if a church is not east facing, the altar is still called "Liturgical East."
Please please please bring this series back, I love learning more about archaeological finds and I adore your videos. ❤❤
If you want to learn more about the Wari, I recommend reading up on the work done by Dr. Véronique Bélisle. She studies the cultural impact the Wari had on surrounding communities during their expansion in 600-1000 AD.
The board game reminds me of the chess tables we have in some squares here in Brazil. They are tables with usually 4 small benches around them that have a chess (or checkers) board on the center, and very frequently you'll see old people playing a game in those tables. I like them very much because you can either play a game or do a picnic on them, and they are usually in very nove and shaded places, very inviting to spend a few hours with friends.
in the us theyd rent you the board or table hourly and if anyone who looked poor sat at one the cops would harass them
German here-
You did a good job with Regenbogen, not so much with schüsselchen
Funfact, Schüssel is the main word meaning bowl but "-chen" as a ending is a way to make a world 'cuter', like adding a -y to dog! So Schüsselchen is literaly just a cute little bowl
Yes :) it makes it even cuter than Rainbow cups.
Also Brötchen
Brot = bread
-chen = ending for cute small things
Brötchen = dinner rolls (or small cute form of bread in the german translation )
Ah that's why you call someone Bärchen for little bear! I'm still learning haha
Just the fact that Irving Finkel was mentioned made my day. Also, omg Milo actually built the replica during quarantine. I just thought about it. Nice work.
One of my old friends and GMs is an assyriologist and when we were in a desert we met a merchant who challenged us to wager passage across the desert for winning a Game of Ur against him. GM made a board and everything and taught us how to play. We ended up winning without even having to cheat! . . . just all 4 of us versing him
I hope to one day be that kind of GM. That's very cool.
is this metagaming?
Nooo no no…”I win!” What why do you win again…because it’s called “I win”…
I have been watching so many of your videos lately and I just love the way you teach, I love your personality, and I love that you’re from Massachusetts because I was born in Hyannis but grew up in Cali so I love hearing about regional things such as the easy pass, Dunkin’ Donuts, and other things. Overall, I love your content and I hope you never stop because I’m far too lazy to do my own research but I love being updated on recent finds. Thank you!
Dude this has such a ridiculously high production value for a relatively small channel. Really hope the algorithm blows you up soon, you deserve it.
He started on TikTok where he has 1.4M subs
@@Alex-fv2qs even if his TikTok is wildly successful, it's a nice sentiment to say they hope for his youtube channel to see more than its present success in the future.
That was definitely a more pleasant ending than I was expecting to the "cache of gold coins found in Germany" part
I cannot wait for future archeologists giving lectures about, “This was known as The Game of Gilded Royals.”
: holds up tattered Hungry Hungry Hippos game :
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS SJSUSHAHJDJAI
Man you have it all. Swagger, comedy, and education. Easily one of the best educational channels on this platform, like somehow you make me (someone who has failed, C-/F, all history classes 4th grade to graduation with no exception) actually enjoy learning about ancient history!
I have very little interest in archeology, but you really manage to make it interesting, well done!
I like how casual and goofy you are in your videos. It makes it more fun to learn!
As a Peruvian, i was exited to hear about the Wari, Nazca and Incas!!!! Thank you so much!!! Great video
it blows my mind people in the us study greek egyptian roman etc archaeology but not american. We are learniing how stunningly advanced tribes here were but there seems to be veey littlw money devoted to it
I hope you keep doing these archeology news episodes, I really like it
I don't think I've ever seen such an informative channel with such a chaotic good energy.
I love love love your lectures! Not an archaeologist, but I believe the neolithic folks had the same range of emotions that we today have. So their motivation for doing anything would be a parallel to what we would do under similar circumstances. Also, their curiosity about what they didn’t understand, for example, the turning of the seasons and light and night, could easily have been explained by gods and goddesses. Every now and then over the millennia, a brilliant person would discover how something worked and others became convinced of its logic, e.g, the moon circling the earth or the earth circling the moon. Then came others who refined the hypothesis until satellites confirmed to all but a few. I think this explains open minded people vs close minded people. Keep in mind that we can control/train our thoughts, pushing out what causes stress and feeding what gives pleasure.
This ACTUALLY showed up in my recommended! That means your channel is getting enough traction to where TH-cam deems it as worthy without the bell icon~ Doing great!
Side note if you haven't yet Miniminuteman, I'm going to recommend picking up a lot of foam for your walls to help with the acoustics in your room. It'll help cut down on the echo. Soft foam is decently inexpensive and they can be mounted with push pins and such and it'll do wonders.
I was wondering if you could do a video on Otzi the Iceman
Dude I was thinking this, my history teacher went over it with us last year
Funny you mention that! Otzi is the discovery that got me interested in archaeology when I was 5 years old. In fact he’s been so foundational in my interests that I actually got his tattoos. I am planning on doing a whole deep dive on Otzi because he deserves a place of honor on this channel.
@@miniminuteman773 def should man would be super fun
@@miniminuteman773 post the tattoos cutie
@@miniminuteman773 wow I've never really thought of a tattoo I'd like but getting the actual tattoos of Ötzi sounds pretty friggin boss.
8:38 oof, I felt that in my heart. That part will always get me no matter how long it's been
Love how his roommates are watching Super Bowl and he’s in his room doing nerd shit 😂
We are so here for it
I think he gonna tape it anyway
This was all so fascinating from the humor to the information. With you also looking similar to my sons, this was so much like them playing around while teaching me some random historical things that they researched that they just wanted to share with me. Like I tell them, I hope you never lose your passion for learning!
Your content is addictive! If you ever wanted to get a mic/help correcting the echo in your audio, ppl who mostly listen to your vids would love that! But your channel is killer & you're doing it for free, so thanks for all the effort you put into these!! One of my fav channels on yt 🙏🙏
marrow is also one of the most delicious and fatty parts of an animal and is widely eaten today. here in the vienna area for example we have a dish called "tafelspitz" which is a particularly delicous cut of beef cooked in a broth, that comes with a big slice of bone where the marrow is then spread on bread for the highlight of the whole experience.
Even when people don't eat marrow directly, bones get boiled and broth in most soups has extract from it, so does gelatine.
May I suggest a video idea? It's something I've been wondering about for a while, but haven't found a proper answer to yet: how much do we know about the world going backwards in time? For example: going back 50 years we can find the names of pretty much all people alive. 100 and we have at least approximate population numbers. 150 and it becomes more vague. 200 and we mostly only know the names of important people and so on and so on. How well do we know society going backwards in time and how quickly does or knowledge deteriorate? What is the first thing we know for certain? It might be a HUGE project, but I think it'd make for a very interesting video!
I feel like this would depend on where you draw the line on human and society. We know that humans were making tools since before they were “human” we know that art has been made since before recorded history. The people making those would not have been in a complex society, but they would have been social. When it comes to history we have written records of that is more recent. And by recent I mean that in terms of thousands of years. You do know less about *individuals* the farther back you go.
I think it would almost be impossible to make a video about this because it’s such a broad field. No one archeologist does the same thing as another. You’d really have to narrow it down to a country and work your way through.
I can’t speak for people who do prehistoric archeology and probably shouldn’t for people who do classical since I’m a only half way through my bachelors but the earliest culture we learn about is the Minoan and Mycenaean Culture (dates to 3500-1100 BCE; focus: Greek islands and influences onto mainland).
Crete was the first area in Europe with a writing system - Linear A and Linear B. Linear A has not been decided yet but Linear B has. Linear B texts were used for administrieren purposes and not writing down important figures. So for example names of different sheep were listed but not the ruler of the time. So we’ve got a good amount of information on that
What’s also important is the iconography. Akrotiri, Thera (aka Santorini) has a beautifully preserved Bronze Age city, where archeologists found wall paintings that give us an insight on hairstyle, makeup, jewelry and clothing. But it also allows us to understand the network of people that went through training in order to make these paintings.
And obviously the remaining material culture from settlements also help us understand the development of society (not Minoan or Mycenaean but the domestic houses from Smyrna 9th-6th century BCE are really interesting in that regard). So the remaining palaces and homes spread across the Aegean are extremely helpful.
We’re not sure why Bronze Age Society collapsed but what we do know is that society seemed to take a step back. Linear B writing system went lost, iconography became simpler.
PS. If you want to look into the development of single citizens into a society in Greece, I’d recommend reading “Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State” by M.H. Hansen
@@awalter3976 Those are a lot of very good points! I was thinking about something very general and shallow, but after reading your comment I think this would have to be a collaborative project, were it to be completed at all.
Don't suppose you know if an overview like I described exists at all?
I actually think this is a great idea. Yes, it would have to be broad and shallow. But I think here on youtube, where we love to get excited about multiple hour long deep dives into niche topics, we forget the value of introductory overviews. This is a great, engaging idea for a video that could give some general context for history, archaeology, and how the two sort of fade into eachother. Or if someone got enough experts together to really do the concept accurately, it could make a great hook for an entire series.
UN literally stopped counting dead in Syria after Assad killed half a million and that was before russia invaded, nobody knows death toll in Mariupol and russians keep bulldozing the evidence, so we are still a long way to know every person alive, or dead. Anyone has total population numbers in Uyghur concentration camps? Or Ukrainian children russia kidnapped and changed their names? Red Cross takes part in cover-ups. Like they did in 1940s Germany. We don't know all names. Never did.
Wish you would bring back videos like this! I know there are a bunch of other projects in the works, but this was such a fun quick ride.
This was very chaotic, which I loved. I look forward to more of this in the future.
Also, I feel deeply for your roommates trying to avoid playing Risk. This speaks to me on a personal level.
Bring this series back please
I was so surprised hearing you talk about the found coin stash here in Germany, because I very rarely listen to the radio but the one time back in january I did, they talked about this finding! Also, all things considered you did a good job pronouncing Regenbogenschüsselchen!
Although the Ü, as well as Ä and Ö, would be better changed to ue, ae and oe instead of just u, a and o, because it can change the meaning of a word quite a bit (e. g. Mütter - Mutter = mothers - mother or schwül - schwul = stuffy - gay, Schüssel - Schussel = bowl - scatterbrain), in case you ever have to feature something german again in the future
also, I might be wrong, but doesn't the suffix -chen indicate that something is small? (I.e Mädchen = little girl) because if so then the actual translation would be more like "little bowl coins" or whatever he said in the video. Or it could just be the way the word ends, I'm not sure.
@@oniononion69 You're right! (except for the Mädchen part, because that means just "girl" - it's complicated with that one) -chen usually denotes that something is small and/or cute. So it would indeed be more accurate to translate it as "little rainbow bowl". But I'm not at all surprised that the google translator kinda glosses over that. The suffix -lein also serves a similiar function, but is not used that much anymore as far as I'm aware.
Edit: While I greatly appreciate the correction on the "Mädchen" part, it is also more than enough when ONE person does so ;)
@@Lulu_Catnaps For "I am a gay scatterbrain", it'd be "Ich bin ein schwuler Schussel" ;)
@@LaPazzaAmy I just remember my german teacher saying that Mädchen technically translates literally to "little girl" rather than just girl, and the -chen suffix being why it's actually a neutral gender (or whatever it's called in english idk) rather than feminine, since words that have the -chen added are neutral.
@@LaPazzaAmy Pretty sure Mädchen was originally a diminuitive too, with "Maid" being the non-diminuitive variant. It's just that Maid fell out of use and Mädchen took on a more independent meaning.
I was 6 years old when I wanted to be an archeologist, by the influence of Tomb Raider. She became my role model as a child, and funnily enough saved my life; because my neurodivergent ass didn't know how to swim as a child and I nearly drowned and thought "How would Lara survive this" and figured out how to get to the surface before drowning. 💀
Albeit archeology was my life goal as a child, and because of it and Tomb Raider my passion for history was sparked and still burning today, it is now more of a personal passion and one I still treasure.
Amazing how some childhood experiences and fascinations can shape a person's being.
Me, confidently at a party while the music is at the quietest point between two tracks: yeah, This Archaeology Month In is definitely my favourite newspaper column of all time
I have now officially watched every single video from Milo made after this video at the current time of this comment. Thanks to you and your channel, I have not only started studying archaeology in college, but i've also started watching your videos religiously. Primarily, since they are not only always fun to rewatch, but it's extremely helpful in my academic journey and it certainly is teaching me how to be a proper archaeologist not only from a local perspective but also from a worldly perspective that respects and admires all cultures outside and inside of modern-day western culture.
OH IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SERIES!! I recently became obsessed with old episodes of time team so I’m fully pumped.
man I can't wait for This Month In Archaeology - February-Decemeber 2022. Gonna be a hell of a video with this long between them
Thankyou for the "for people who's brains work like that" bits, they really help.
Hearing you try to pronounce Polish names is quite hilarious.
Pomorzanie was the name of people living in the area called Pomorze. The rz is pronounced like the first g in the french word gigolo.
Mieszko is pronounced Mieshko.
German is a very hard language. The W is pronounced like in Wolfram.
W wasn't pronounced like V in German?
@@elfodelputoinfierno yes it is. w in german is pronounced like the english v in vision, virus etc. not sure what krin krin meant by wolfram, cuz i'm pretty sure anglophones would pronounce the w in wolfram the same as any other w.
@@finnwolf8568 wait. Should I have been pronouncing wolfram like Volf-ram?
@@conaireparsons9672well if you want to be accurate to the original german pronunciation, yes. although fyi you would then also have to pronounce the o like in 'evolve', slightly roll the r instead of using the weird soft english r, and pronounce the a like in 'father', rather than in 'damn'.
@@finnwolf8568 vｏlfrrahm?
What a series this turned out to be
I love the way you pronounce polish names. Also i the fact that this unique and precious amber rings are literally lying on a toilet paper in most of the photos is hilarious to me.
lmao i think they're napkins, but they look like the kind your midwest granny buys
@@kenziescout2343 I'm pretty sure it's toilet paper I use the same brand. It's very popular in poland and it has this granny vibe to it. May have also be the tissues idk.
If it ain't broke don't fix it i guess
The rings are kept in moist toilet paper because amber is an organic material. Keeping it moist ensures that it wont break.
Conservation is very important when finding things like this so getting it wrapped up in something moist as soon as possible is key and toilet paper is usually the most prevalent and easy thing to use.
I LOVE this type of video!!! I don't have time to sit down and read all the magazines I get, but I love learning the information! Thank you!
"Regenbogenschüsselchen" (Don't forget the Röck Döts - a "Schüsselchen" is a small cub or bowl, "Schusselchen" on the other hand is an affectionate way to call someone unfocused and forgetful..😅) is a term I never heard before despite being german and interested in archeology. Thanks for the info and for being brave enough to try pronounciating it! 🤣
I really appreciate your content and style of presentation - you dusted archeology, and your approach and character makes you a great communicator of archeology and related topics towards a younger audience.
Keep on doing your thing - I can't wait for your next upload.
Greetings from Berlin!
Sorry of the lack of "Röck Döts". My font did not have any
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That's not an excuse - because you could write "ü" as "ue" instead, or "ä" as "ae"..🤓
But joke aside:
Actually I'm not that pendantic, but the example was well suited to show that two tiny dots can profoundly change the meaning of a word. 😅
Have a nice weekend, and greetings from Berlin!
@@kai_plays_khomus Thanks man. I'll try and have dots in the next video. Enjoy your day. Greetings from Cape Town.
@@kailbadenhorst7174
I didn't mean to harass you to change your ways for such a nit-pick. 😅
The only reason I adressed it at all is that in this special case it results in the creation of a wholesome new term.
If you are dealing with fonts and typography this might be interesting for you:
Ä, ö and ü are shortened forms of writing "ae", "oe" and "ue" (which is still practiced when no ä/ö/ü are available, or for instance in crosswords).
People started to fuse the two letters for convenience, resulting in Æ/æ, Uͤ /uͤ and Oͤ/oͤ, and in the last step the tiny e above u and o changed into dots.
Neither version would be wrong today, but not having the dots and no added "e" at all is like omitting a complete letter.
The difference between "Schüsselchen" and "Schusselchen" becomes obvious when one writes it out:
"Schussel" and Schuessel" (the ending -chen would indicate a diminutive) are very different words now.
As I said: I don't want to be nitpicky, I just thought it might be interesting to learn what's the deal with our weird vowel mutations. 😅
If no dots are available the correct german writing would add an "e" instead, always and with no exception.
If this was better known it would make things for english speakers way more easy when dealing with german terms I guess..
Thanks and all the best to you as well!
🤜🤛
PS: The same holds true for another loanword relevant for this channel:
"Lagerstätte"/"Lagerstaette", a term from paleontology and paleoecology.
You totally look like a modern day Captain Jack Sparrow in this video and I'm living for it! Thanks for sparking my newfound passion for archeology with your humor and awesomeness 😊
Honestly, hands down best youtuber. He’s funny, educational, and a dedicated duct tape user?! Amazing
Milo . A contemporary archeological icon . You make me happy . And . Informed .
keep up the solid videos! also i couldnt hear any background noises. if youre worried about audio quality get an external recorder or lav mic. that way you could damn near be in the room the super bowl party is goin and it wouldnt interfere much haha. or some sound treatment in the room youre in because there is a slight echo/reverb.
Wanted to say that apart from all the interesting archeology, I really love that you leave mistakes in your videos. I spent almost a full minute laughing at your second attempt to show how many towers there were and still getting the number wrong.
I'll also point out for anyone interested that the picture of the stylized dancing bird is from Northwest/Alaskan Native culture (shown during the segment on the Paleolithic Settlement).
I started binging your videos the other day, I love your style of mixing casual humor with really interesting information
i love this new idea for a series.... also i am so happy that you referenced Irving Finkle playing the game of Ur, that is such a great video, as are all of Finkle's videos, he is the best
You are one of the most refreshing person to watch about such a fascinating subject. Thankyou
I will never get tired of the jokes you effortlessly slip in to all your videos. Most of the time they catch me so off guard and it's great, they always get a genuine laugh out of me. (And don't worry, we have EZ passes in Maine too)
Thank you so much for making this series, I've always wished someone would do this kinda format
So interesting and entertaining at the same time!! Keep the coming!!
All hail Irving Finkel!
Please do more of these! It's amazing learning about new discoveries!!
I hope you do do a video on the Wari! I'm actually traveling to Bolivia this summer, and I'm trying to read up on the indigenous peoples there. Lake Titicaca was akin to the Wari's Nile River. The Wari history in the region and their eventual decline as the Inca rose is really neat.
Totally agree with the assessment of Finkle. I love his lectures.
Dude. Like, dude. Just... dude.
I'm just happy that there are people like you trying to make edumacational things cool again.
Go you.
After watching the video on the “Baghdad Battery”, it makes me happy to hear about some sites that weren’t disturbed more or less before being studied. It’s nice what you can find out when you don’t touch anything without thinking first!
Is there any plan to restart this series? I love all of your content, but this was a fun jumping off point to go down a number of rabbit holes after the fact, and would love it if you continued to make installments in this format periodically (maybe quarterly, if monthly proved too demanding?)
He's in another timeline when West actually helped Ukraine and got into a war with russia judging by the intro. In real life it's just us being bombed with Westerners chilling out in pools of our blood.
Fun fact: xocoatl was an almost beer-like, frothy drink made from whisking paste made of the fermented seeds of the cacao plant into water using a molinet and was mainly used in religious ceremonies and rituals, partly due to its slight alcoholic and hallucinogenic properties. The ancient Mayan peoples are credited as the first to cultivate cacao plants and took it with them as they traveled from the Amazon and the Orinoco Basin, and eventually created the first cacao plantations in Yucatán. Also, cacao beans were sometimes used as currency by the Olmec peoples.
I highly recommend looking into the origins and history of chocolate. It’s really quite fascinating.
Lol I know I am not the only one here that is eagerly awaiting your next video. Also when you spinning the wheel again?
I made my own modern replica of the Ur board game as well! Glad to see someone else has a similar internal component of weirdness.
Missed the last one because I was out with friends so hopefully I won't miss this premiere too
I have the solution be like me and have no friends👍
I've seen a video of Erwin Finkle playing the royal game of ur with Tom Scot, it has pretty simple rules but still seems like it would be a blast to play
there is also a video of Finkle playing the Royal Boardgame with Tom Scott (british TH-camr) which is hillarious
i need more of this , i found and binged your channel a little before you made this and lost it in the youtube. later i found a short and now im binging it again. this is great content
Wow, this was great, super interesting and great fun to watch and listen to. I am so glad to have found your channel.
I must learn more about the Wari. They sound very interesting, I like the idea of how they built and governed their empire. I must learn more.
Did you know that beer making is probably older than wine making. At least there is older archaeological evidence for beer making. It is actually older than agriculture and may have been one of the motivators for agriculture involving grains. Humans and a number of animals love to get high and or wasted. Wastage seems to pair well with Super Bowl.
Regarding your last sentence. I never drink when flying the shroom highway other realms. It really is a waste of money.
Leave it to people to invent agriculture so they cam drink more
@@donniejefferson9554 When I was a kidlet, a neighbour had a large old black cherry tree in his yard. In the fall, every year, thousands of birds would descend upon that big tree and have a massive noisey drunked up party that lasted for days, until the cherries were gone. Noisy as hell with birds, mostly starlings flying into trees, fences, and houses all over the place. They would fly into things, fall to the ground, flutter about a bit, then fly away, most of the time. Often leaving bird shit on windows and the sides of houses and parked cars.
I love this, I hope the series continues one day!
As someone in their second year of an Archaeology degree, I thoroughly enjoy every video you make.
Cant wait for your next episode of awful archaeology. Great stuff
This is my favorite series on the channel.
This Series is already really amazing :D also I'm sorry for long german words XD you did do fairly well with the Regenbogen part of the word :) but I feel like Schüsselchen is probably one of the hardest words ever for english speaking people to say XD
I played the Axis and Allies board game once. It took all night and was very educational. Usually once studies WWII piecemeal, one relatively small aspect at a time. It was the first time I had to consider all aspects at once; put all the puzzle pieces together, so to speak.
„Regenbogenschüsselchen“ is brutal but if it means „little rainbow bowl“ or „rainbow bowlies“ it’s worth it!
(The suffix „-chen“ is used to make it cute similar to the English -y like pup and puppy or kitten and kitty)
Among the many things I learned from this video, the most important was about the Wari. Specifically, I've much to learn about their methods for terrace farming making them drought-resistant (as an avid Timberborn player) and their peruvian pepper alcohol (because those trees invasive in Southern California, and easy to find and harvest in LA).
I'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
Please bring this back